 There we go everybody see that all right, so I posted this on Twitter. This is a list of This is a list of Threats to the United States of America It's not an exhaustive list and I haven't listed here Ideologies I've only listed movements institutions companies Things that people think of as threats To the United States of America listed this on Twitter and I said, okay I I want people to rank him and if you look I think let me see if I can get you this Let me do this one second one second Yeah, you see there's some rankings I took up Twitter that people ranked them It's is what they think the ranking should be so you've got you've got Tick-tock I thought that would be funny China big tech all considered you know all priorities for the Republicans and Democrats Tick-tock Schumer came out and said we gotta get rid of tick-tock tick-tock Obviously is a massive threat to American freedom China obviously everybody thinks is a threat to American freedom big tech Everybody agrees the whole Congress was attacking big tech universities Don't know if everybody agrees and Tifa well certainly the right things Democratic Party right thinks that Trump left thinks that Republican Party left thinks that Russia Not sure anybody thinks that or maybe everybody thinks that car to tell Certainly not Trump illegal immigrants everybody in the right thinks they were threat to America trade and outsourcing Well, the right thinks that's an a threat to America Wall Street, I think everybody thinks what to you the threat a threat to America BLM well suddenly the right thinks that white supremacist certainly the left thinks that religion Suddenly the well, I don't know if anybody thinks that will national conservatism I think I'm the only person who thinks that's a threat crime is that a threat to American freedom Or did we always have it anyway? Biden well certainly a lot of you think is a major threat and so do I to America welfare state Threat America or savior. I think again Objectivist maybe some free market people think it's a threat, but very few government schools I don't know who thinks that's a threat Islamists and Islam. Oh, this used to be number one number one Absolutely, it's faded a little bit now China illegal immigrants and tiktok have replaced it Islam. I Remember arguing with people Islam is gonna destroy America the Muslims are gonna take over the number one threat the number one danger They would know it turns out not so much COVID big threat fed federal reserve who massive threat. So what do you guys think? Islam has lost its place as the number one threat. What do you think? What would you put number one? What would you put number one is the? biggest long term not tomorrow long-term threat To America somebody says 20 Government schools I'd say it's up there. I wouldn't put a number one because what makes government schools what makes Government schools possible or put it this way what makes government schools as bad as they are Something is worse than government schools He says number two is forced For his number two that's universities and National conservatism is number three All right, not bad. I would I would not in that order but but close William Swig said Democrats. Yeah, right Book says number four universities are eight Kyle says 15. That's religion Jonathan says religion is number one Steve says 19 Andrew says number one is Democracy or democracy is a good one to add to the list. Let's add democracy Democracy democracy certainly up there, but not number one far from it property right violation number one. No, not even close Democrats and Republicans Oh, this is not my ranking not my ranking not my ranking. This is just a list just made a list so COVID is not number 22. Nothing here is this particular number. This is just a list, right? just a list that I made and You know, I'm open to ranking Gil says number four Rock says property rights. That's right. I had that already Derek is reminding me to like don't forget to like the show before you leave We should have 200 likes right now easily if you guys were watching the show like it And then of course, don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to use super chat here Somebody says number 23 the Federal Reserve. No, not even close. Why do we have a Federal Reserve? Who who led us to Federal Reserve public intellectuals? I had public intellectuals and took it off. Okay. I'm gonna add public intellectuals public Intellectual don't pay attention to my inability to type Okay public intellectuals Okay, so we got 23 we got num princess number three my king. I don't know what that is number four So four number six six is what? Democratic party no way far down the list Number one university is number one 26 green you deal. I'll add green you deal, but yeah, it's not gonna be very high on the list green you deal What else number four all right We're getting a bit of a no one's a consensus, but a majority here politicians It's just to say political Democrats and put no politicians politicians are the product of the thing that is worse than politicians The Federal Reserve is a product of the thing worse than politicians Altruism is a set of ideas. We're not including ideas here. We're including institutions and movements Number four number 20. What's 20 government schools government schools. I think it's number two not number one Irrationality again, that's an idea certainly irrationalities number one, but irrationally mysticism altruism all the way up there Number 26 is the biggest threat green you deal. No, it's not it's far from the biggest threat Number 27 anime fury boys on tiktok. Well, I think that's covered by tiktok James says 20 government schools government schools not quite All right a few of you get where I'm going at least okay There's to me There's one number one that's overwhelming because it sets the standards for everything else The number one enemy of freedom in the United States the biggest threat to freedom long-term for the United States are the universities The university is on number one by far because who trains The teachers who teach in the government schools Who figures out the new math gibberish that they're taught who figures out sight see and and rejects rejects phonics who figures out all the nonsense the the the all the BS oh Now I'm guilty of trump to agement syndrome because I said the universities are the biggest threat. Wow It's kind of weird. All right Universities are the biggest threat in my view Second number two After universities you'll see a theme here Long-term threat to the United States to freedom and everything good in this country is government schools Look if you get if you have under your control The government schools and the universities you're done You've got them till the age of 18 and It doesn't in the end matter if the what ends the world is religion or what ends the world is the Green New Deal or what ends the world is is Is national conservatism or or the Democratic Party or Antifa? All of those will have been trained By the universities and the government schools and They produce both left and right they produced extremes and why do they produce the extreme left and extreme right which are basically the same collectivistic mystical altruistic non-thinking nihilists well nihilists on the left and Authoritarians and both Why well because what are the government schools in the universities teachers the reality is not real There is no absolutes There are no principles not even in mathematics. It turns out if you saw the two plus two equals five stuff. I Mean who comes up with two plus two because five Doron asks and yeah universities do if you if you Cripple the human mind when it's young When it's just coming out when it's just Engaging with the world and starting to try to think for itself then what are you gonna get? You're gonna get disaster. So by far education is the most important thing in the world Politics is not number one two three four five six Democratic Party is way down on the list as is the Republican Party as is Trump as are the others because they are products products of what? products of government schools The Fed is a product. Why haven't we abandoned the Fed given its total and absolute failure? Because we're not trained to think that way. We're trained to accept We're trained to confuse What else is a threat and now there's some things that are just not threats right tiktok is not a threat Illy willy McGrinsey not a threat trade is not a threat Wall Street. It's not a threat So let's let's let's let's take the things that are not threats will italicize those That's not a threat big tech is not a threat Right, so we see what we're left with The legal immigrants is not a threat and you'll see that it's interesting that all the things that are not a threat Wall Street is not a threat or BLM is a threat. So BLM we should I tell this all the things that Are not threats other things are two political parties want to talk about other things. They want to scare you over All right, everything else is a threat. All right, I Think number three might be public intellectuals the thinkers Who the courts is a good one? I don't know where I put them because I think the courts Courts are the still a place of sanity in America Still relatively speaking relatively speaking still bad Relatively speaking. I think it's it's the intellectuals. It's universities government schools public intellectuals. It's the it's the Religion it's the national conservators It's BLM. It's white supremacists It's the ideas. I don't even think Antifa is that important I think it's probably under BLM because it's such a marginal group in any other world They'd be rid of easily and there's no way Antifa goes mainstream and only then only after you take all these other groups All these groups do you get to? Trump Biden Republicans Democrats And only then do you get to the political issues like welfare state federal reserve And only at the very bottom do I put Islamists China Russia Because they're not a threat to the United States The real threat to freedom in America Is America The real threat to freedom in America is what they teach at our universities the real threat to America Is not cyber security the real threat to America are the ideas The egalitarianism the altruism the collectivism the mysticism the postmodernism And the fact that our schools Our government schools don't teach kids to think Don't teach kids math. Don't teach kids english Don't teach kids literature That's what's destroying america It's that right from within that is ideological that is philosophical that is pervaded by the intellectuals The fact is it is the intellectuals that are destroying america The intellectual elite both left and right Whether at the new york times paul kugman's of the world or among or at the american conservative magazine Or the The various different new right magazines The battle for america is not a political battle It's not about republicans or democrats They're just pawns in the game The real influences the real determinants of the fate of this country the real determinants of the Future of this country of the shape this country takes of the ideas this country adopts Are the intellectuals? That's why the battle is an intellectual philosophical battle That's why the most important voices We have are the intellectual voices It's why you guys should go and support the ironman institute. You should support don watkins. You should support alex epstein You should support The intellectuals the public intellectuals working out there To reverse these trends you should support Greg salamieri at his new position in at the university of texas Tara smith and any intellectuals out there who is speaking out who is working Against the ideas that are destroying this country. That is the battle. That is the war. That is everything screw politics forget about it You take all that time you devote to defending trump Or attacking biden or reverse or whatever And spend it instead of defending ideas On attacking ideas Yeah, sam havers counts sam is a public intellectual who well does some good does some bad and the bad he does is big time because He undermines free will Which is about the worst thing you can undermine ever so A big reason for me to do this is just to illustrate at least my view That the real enemy here Is our ideas And if you want to fight fight for ideas Fight at the level of ideas Stop this obsession. I mean The obsession with politics. I mean so so many of you disagree with me on trump fine. Who cares? I know there are a lot of people who disagree with me on trump But if you care about the future of this country, you've got to fight his bad ideas Even if you think he's better than biden your vote for him no matter what great Do that vote for trump but fight his bad ideas. Don't be apologists for him And then promote good ideas. Thank you lester promote great ideas promote the ideas of reason Of egoism of individual rights of individualism of capitalism Don't spend all your time attacking biden on the left Unless you're promoting something good something positive something worthwhile That battle is an intellectual battle a philosophical battle ideological battle. You will lose If you obsess about politics Politics doesn't matter doesn't matter who gets elected long term Well, it matters, but it doesn't matter that much What matters is are the ideas that become prevalent in this country and Those of you support this show don't support it because of my You know my ability to sway the vote one way or the other you support this show You support this show because you know that I promote your ideas. I promote your philosophy and I spend my time Talking about philosophical ideas Even in the discussion of lebanon. I'm giving you facts history All in the context of freedom is good. What they're doing in lebanon is a disaster because it's anti-freedom Wow, I've got how did ned stock enter the conversation on the chat So if you care about I if you care about the future of this country and you think Objectivism is on the right path The ideas are the right ideas Then promote those of us Help those of us who are speaking out for it and you need to pick up the mantle and support it and advocate for it yourself That's how we'll change the world What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not Want to give in to today's cult of the stare cynicism and impotence And does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist Brought all right before we go on reminder Please like the show. 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